Live: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours

The health of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, has severely deteriorated in Israeli detention in Israel's infamous Ofer prison, his lawyer said in a statement on social media.

Israeli forces arrested Abu Safia on 27 December from the hospital in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, which was left out of service following Israeli attacks.

All medical staff, patients, and their relatives were taken out of the hospital at gunpoint, forced to strip down to their underwear.

Remaining in solitary confinement, Abu Safiya has lost more than 40kg (88 pounds) since his arrest and was reportedly beaten on 24 June, his lawyer said. He was denied medical care despite requesting treatment for injuries to his ribs, face and back, as well as for irregular cardiology test results.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israel's plans to build a “humanitarian city” to move Palestinians out of Gaza, "a concentration camp."

“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry. If [the Palestinians] will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city,’ then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing,” Olmert told the Guardian in an interview.

“When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them."

Israeli opposition politician Yair Lapid also criticised the plan.

“A bad idea from every possible perspective - security, political, economic, logistical, the [Israeli army] of course opposes it loudly; there is nothing good in it except an attempt to create a process that will ultimately leave Israel in Gaza out of no choice,” Israeli Army Radio reported him saying.

Two Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli air strikes today, bringing the total number of media workers killed since Israel began its war on Gaza to 230, Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.

Journalist Hossam al-Adlouni was killed along with his wife and three children in a strike on a tent sheltering displaced families in al-Mawasi near Khan Younis, while Fadi Khalifa was killed in an attack as he visited his home in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

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An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces indictment on security charges pending a hearing, Israel's attorney general said on Sunday, for allegedly leaking top secret military information during Israel's war on Gaza.

Netanyahu's close adviser, Jonatan Urich, has denied any wrongdoing in the case which legal authorities began investigating in late 2024.

The prime minister has described probes against Urich and other aides as a witch hunt.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara said in a statement that Urich and another aide had extracted secret information from the Israeli military and leaked it to the German newspaper Bild.

Their intent, she said, was to shape public opinion of Netanyahu and influence the discourse about the killing of six Israeli captives in Gaza in late August 2024. Hamas said they were killed in Israeli air strikes.

The captives' deaths had sparked mass protests in Israel and outraged captive families, who accused Netanyahu of torpedoing ceasefire talks for political reasons.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that Israel will resume its war on Gaza following the proposed 60-day ceasefire with Hamas currently negotiated in Doha, Channel 12 reported.

“After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on northern Gaza],” Netanyahu reportedly told Smotrich.

Israel's Kan broadcaster reported on Saturday that Prime Minister Netanyahu is working to keep his coalition together by securing support from far-right ministers Smotrich and Finance Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who stongly oppose a ceasefire deal.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was injured in the leg during an Israeli missile strike on Tehran on 16 June, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.

The attack, which targeted a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council, reportedly involved six missiles.

Pezeshkian and other senior officials, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, were evacuated through an emergency hatch, according to the report.

US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff told reporters that he is "hopeful" about the ceasefire talks, and he will meet with a Qatari delegation on the sidelines of the FIFA Club World Cup in New Jersey later this afternoon to discuss the negotiations.

A military court in Ofer Prison ruled on Sunday to extend the detention of Palestinian journalist Nasser al-Lahham for three more days, according to Haaretz.

Israeli forces arrested the veteran journalist during a violent raid on his home in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem early 7 July.

Lahham, a 58-year-old journalist with over 30 years of experience reporting from Palestine, is the editor-in-chief of Ma’an News Agency and director of Al-Mayadeen TV’s office in Palestine.

A Palestinian man, his wife and three of his children were killed in an Israeli attack on their tent in the al-Mawasi area, west of Gaza, according to Al Jazeera, citing sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

The latest attack brings today’s death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza to 92 people.

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was paid over $1m for advising a private US maritime aid initiative for Gaza that operated outside the traditional United Nations-led system, according to the Financial Times.

The payment coincided with BCG's involvement in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial project accused of undermining humanitarian principles. 

Earlier this month, the FT reported that BCG had signed a multimillion-dollar contract to support GHF's operations, including modelling a plan to "relocate" Palestinians from Gaza.

BCG helped design and run the US- and Israeli-backed effort, which aimed to bypass UN aid coordination and replace it with a new system.

Read more: BCG 'paid over $1m' for Gaza maritime aid project

Hospital sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 85 people since dawn, including 46 in Gaza City alone.

Meanwhile, Al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya warned that Gaza’s hospitals could shut down by tomorrow without fuel. He accused the Israeli army of restricting fuel deliveries “up to the point of death,” saying medical teams are stretched thin and supplies are running critically low.

Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported receiving two fatalities and 15 injuries after Israeli forces targeted a gathering of civilians near the Abu Btiḥan station in Al-Zawaida, central Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says in a post on X that a 7-month-old girl, Salam, suffering from serious acute malnutrition, had died today while being treated by its teams.

Salam is one of thousands of malnourished children in Gaza, with more cases detected every day, UNRWA added.

“Gaza should remain an island of ruins for the next decades as it is now”, said Israel’s energy minister Eli Cohen on Channel 14, adding that his ministry will not help rebuild infrastructure in Gaza.

Cohen outlined the army’s two main objectives in Gaza: securing the release of hostages and compelling Hamas to surrender.

Despite the potential for a ceasefire, Israel has said it will maintain a presence in Rafah and establish a “collection camp” as part of efforts to deport Palestinians abroad.

The United Nations has warned that fuel shortages in Gaza under Israel's ongoing blockade are pushing the humanitarian response to the brink of collapse.

For days, hospitals and aid agencies in Gaza have issued urgent appeals for international intervention to secure fuel deliveries, as shortages continue to cripple vital essential services for more than two million Palestinians.

Medical facilities have been forced to shut down electricity in some departments and suspend life-saving treatments such as dialysis, leaving patients on life support in critical danger.

On Wednesday, the UN confirmed that Israel permitted a limited shipment of fuel into Gaza, the first in over four months. However, the 75,000-litre delivery was far from sufficient, failing to cover even a single day's needs.

In a joint statement issued on Saturday, UN humanitarian agencies said fuel supplies in Gaza had "reached critical levels".

Read more: 'Unbearable': Gaza services face shutdown as fuel runs out under Israeli siege

Israeli assaults across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 70 people today, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.

Roughly half of the reported deaths occurred in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have intensified their bombardment.

The Israeli military said it carried out 150 airstrikes over the past 24 hours and launched a ground operation in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.